When I download free music, it is to listen if the songs are any good and if most are good on the album. If it is, then I will buy the CD, if not, why waste money on one song out of the whole album? And besides, those 30 seconds clips doens't help out either if the song is good or not.

wrong.. piracy is not that much of a hurt to the music industry. It is a mean of advertisement. When you download a good song and you pass it to your friends and so on then they get heard. Many people steal the music and buy it again to support the artists and many go to concerts... Also good artists that relays messages want music heard... not all of the industry is corrupt.

hmm download song? i dont wana go out and buy a CD for jux one song.. so wad for buying eh?

usualy when i buy an album i only like a couple of the songs at first. after a while of listening i start to like all the songs (sometimes more than the original ones i liked) . but it is really expensive to buy cds and sometimes they are realy hard to find. limewire and torrents are free and theyre right in front of you. Just have to resist the urge!!

lmao =) its faster than purchasing >_> going out to the mall enter the store pick out the cd stand in line god knows how long you have to wait >_> while as downloading click wait for it to finish nd ur done =) but if i really did like the artist i would probably buy their cd's =)

People will still buy the CDs if its worth it. I rarely buy CDs anymore because nothing is really that good anymore and all the music I listen to in unavailable in music stores in North America. So too bad, downloading is the only alternative route.

I suppose your right, and its going to cause a serious drop decent bands, I dont think we're going to see very many more variations of good classics in a new age, the only people who will be in bands will be those who can afford it, but in the other hand the music industry, like any other, shouldve seen this coming, people steal when they know they can get away with it, its in human nature.